Visual Research Week 1

During this week continuing with Visual research, I am hoping to create a full body of work, water being my over all theme but looking at the properties of water rather than it so literally. So thinking about how movement for example can be captured through different media and how I draw. I had started working with watercolour mostly but have found that this media is to light and soft for what I am trying to achieve, so moving onto acrylic is working better, also layering up texture before painting over to is creating something very interesting.

I am finding it tricky to get across what I want to achieve, due to the media and scale I am working on and think that working on sheets will work better and allow me to work more freely and expressive. Though my sketchbook is allowing me to try out things smaller to see what is working.

Dana Barnes

I have been looking at artist Dana Barnes who works with unspun natural fibres, who uses techniques like knotting and twisting to create large scale textiles for interior spaces. I find here work rather interesting because I feel that it captures a quality of stress, due to it being all tangles together, and this quality I feel is something I want to achieve and due to its scales it is even more powerful.